Ever jelqed yourself raw?

I’ve recently upped my jelqs to 200 per session. The other day, I actually rubbed myself raw at a particular point on my shaft and now I have to wait until it heals before I can continue. That sucks. I tried to push through it, today, but I was only able to do about 120. This ever happen to anybody before?

I don’t understand what “jelqing yourself raw” even means. What, did you try wet jelqing without lube or something?

Sounds like it. andgrowing, having been dry-jelqing myself for quite a while, I strongly recommend using proper lubrication while doing a set. It pracically eliminates all issues regarding skin soreness, bruises and the like. A cheap vegetable oil like the one derived from rape-seed is all that is required. Try it!

Assuming you are doing wet-jelqs, you are either:

(i) using little to no lube; if this is the case, use any number of lubes to make the process easier on the skin. Alternatively, you can change lubes. I found that I got a lot more out of olive oil than I did Vaseline.

(ii) stroking too hard thereby creating too much friction and thus resulting in the rawness or

(iii) some combination of the above.

If it’s dry jelqing, perhaps invest in a little bit of lube as Lazy Wally suggests or bring the reps down.

I find that jelqing is really a trial and error exercise. Some guys can jelq an incredible amount of reps while others (myself included) just find the exercise difficult to sustain for too long for due to some sort of sensitivity of the skin. Better to have a great mild session of 50 than an injurious session of 100, in my opinion. I know the newbie manual and other regimes talk about upping reps but I think that the timeframe in upping reps and by how much is determined by your own body, not what worked for someone else (physiology can be a bitch sometimes).

I have been there with the injuries from jelqing and I wish you a speedy recovery.

They are dry jelqs. If I use lube (even a little), won’t they cease to be dry jelqs?

Exactly. “Dry” in “dry jelq” means “without lubrication”. Since a dry jelq in itself doesn’t yield better results than a wet jelq, all you have to lose are those sore spots on the shaft. I always thought of dry jelqs as an ad hoc-solution when you have to be very stealthy about your PE regimen.

Untrue… some people prefer dry jelqing over wet jelqing, either due to the feeling or results.

Personally I like dry jelqing. I don’t get where the rawness comes in though. When I dry jelq, then skin under my hand which is clamped at the base doesn’t move relative to my hand at all, so there is no way for it to get raw. Is your skin moving under your hand?

Maybe just enough to cause the skin to rub raw. Between dry and wet, I’ve gotten the best results from dry jelqing and I also like the feeling more.

I’d say just squeeze harder then. It might also give you a better jelq. The way I see it, if your hand isn’t moving relative to your tunica, then when you jelq you’re expanding the entire tunica the entire time, rather than just the part of the tunica which is in front of your hand (which gets smaller with time in wet jelqing). I’m currently doing really extreme uli’s this way and my base girth is increasing just as much as the rest of my girth, so as far as I know this is true.

What?

Rapsolja in Swedish, also known as Canola.

My mistake, there’s no hyphen.

Rapeseed - Wikipedia

No.

Ouch?